# Key Points from IRC Log

• Utopiah shared a link to RobotsInArchitecture.org, which sparked a discussion about industrial robot arms versus traditional milling machines, with fenn arguing that robot arms are better suited for complex assembly tasks while hexapods or gantry routers would be more cost-effective for milling.

• The Open Science Summit 2011 was livestreamed, with kanzure creating and sharing transcripts of presentations on topics including scientific transparency, open access, intellectual property issues, and innovation models (available at diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/).

• A discussion of the BGI (Beijing Genomics Institute) E. coli outbreak analysis highlighted their open-source approach to genomic data analysis, with code available on GitHub, though some participants noted the presentation lacked novel information.

• The American Chemical Society's opposition to open access was mentioned, including their hiring of PR firms to counter open access initiatives by framing "open access equals government censorship" and characterizing it as "socialized science."

• Participants discussed DIY scientific equipment, including a peristaltic pump project and interest in DIY atomic force microscopes and ultra-high vacuum chambers for scientific experimentation.

• A link was shared to accidentalnoise.sourceforge.net/minecraftworlds.html demonstrating procedural world generation techniques.